Archives for
January 2011

We got our hands on one of the hottest items at CES, the Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone. What did it feel like? Atrix's dual-core Nvidia Tegra 1GHz processor runs its Android 2.2 (known as Froyo) operating system in an unusually sprightly way, respondi...

MOG and Rdio made a pair of announcements at CES 2011 that truly demonstrate the growing ubiquity of music subscription services. Rdio will be available on Sonos Multi-Room Music System by early 2011, and MOG could soon be available across a range of...

Tesla gave crowds at the Consumer Electronics Show a sneak preview of its upcoming "reasonably priced" electric car, the Tesla Model S. Surrounded by bruiser security types, there was no driving it today, or sitting in it, or even opening its doors. ...

MTV and Foursquare have teamed up once again to launch a new Jersey Shore-themed badge. The new "GTL" badge — for Gym/Tan/Laundry — is designed for those who check in to facilities offering the aforementioned services during a 7-day period. The badge...

Citing Facebook's effect on the way people converse and collaborate, cloud computing firm Salesforce.com announced today that it has purchased real-time communications firm Dimdim for $31 million. With the acquisition, Salesforce.com aims to give the...

Rick Orr is the CEO and co-founder of TabbedOut, a service that enables patrons to open, review and pay tabs from their smartphone and offers a better payment experience for customers. Consumers want mobile payments. So do the mobile carriers, device...

Aiming to build a little buzz, Zynga's Mafia Wars today began featuring items in the game designed to promote the Sony Pictures movie The Green Hornet. Prepping for the film's January 14 release, Mafia Wars players can collect eight Green Hornet loot...

Online chatter about tech and gadgets has seen a definitive increase coinciding with the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, which began this week in Las Vegas. Tech manufacturers, products and the convention itself are receiving mostly positive or neutr...

The Mac App Store has arrived and with it comes access to more than 1,000 different free and paid apps. While nearly identical in design to the iTunes App Store for iOS apps, the Mac App Store represents a big shift in Mac application discovery and d...

At CES in Las Vegas Thursday, Verizon Wireless showed off its 4G LTE network and some of the 4G LTE devices it will be carrying in the first half of 2011. Motorola announced two of its upcoming Android devices, the Droid Bionic smartphone and the Mot...

Pioneer's SmartCradle is made specifically for the iPhone, and it might be one of the more useful accessories we've seen at CES. Pioneer says it can boost GPS signals, and its amplification works not only on navigation apps; it's said to enhance the ...

Today at CES, Polaroid execs, with the help of new creative director Lady Gaga, have just taken the wraps off a new line of photo-capturing gadgets; like the company's spokesperson, the cameras are as intriguing as they are outlandish. Dubbed the Gra...

The same company that introduced the postage meter 90 years ago has announced it will launch a free digital mailbox in 2011 that will allow customers to pay multiple bills online without remembering more than one password. Pitney Bowes's multi-platfo...

With more than 1.3 million nominations and votes, we bring you the Mashable Awards Gala live, where we'll be announcing and celebrating the 2010 Mashable Awards Winners. Watch live to hear the winners first. We're excited to have comedian Baratunde T...

The new Mac App Store has arrived, and with it approximately 1,000 apps available to Mac desktop and laptop owners. We've spent the day downloading and experimenting with various apps, some of which behave just like full-fledged, existing desktop sof...

Nike has announced the latest addition to its existing line of Nike+-integrated products, the Nike+ SportWatch GPS. The watch enables runners to track their time, pace, distance, route, heart rate and calories burned with a simple three-button interf...

With more than 1.3 million nominations and votes, we're pleased to announce the 2010 Mashable Awards winners. The Mashable Awards, our annual contest highlighting the very best of tech and the web, received a record number of votes this year. After e...

Without question, 2010 was Groupon's year to rise and shine. While it might not have reached Facebook-like ubiquity or become a household name in middle America, this startup certainly made huge waves in the past 12 months. As competition in the dail...

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they're doing to ...

Google has launched a new feature in Google Docs that enables you to watch videos you've uploaded to your documents directly in the browser. To watch a video, just click on it and press play. Google warns that the videos must be in a supported format...

If you're a corporation with a long history in imaging like Polaroid, and you want an injection of creativity, one thing you can do is hire one of the most infamously creative (especially when it comes to visual image) artists around - Lady Gaga. Lad...

Megan Berry is marketing manager for Klout, the standard for online influence. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and Brazen Careerist. You can follow her on Twitter at @meganberry. Twitter can sometimes create a dilemma for brands. It’s a medium ...

Users have downloaded more than 1 million free and paid apps from Apple's freshly launched Mac App Store, the company has announced. “We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Considering the st...

Quora -- though launched in 2009 -- has exploded in the past few weeks. And you know what happens when you reach a certain pinnacle of popularity? People start making fun of you. Enter "Cwora," a faux site designed by Tom Scott, of Stupid Fight and T...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today. 1 Million Apps Downloaded From Mac App Stor...

YouTube has offered its first sneak peek of the Ridley Scott-produced, crowd-sourced documentary Life in a Day before the film's world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on January 27. The clip, shot by Toniu Xou and Patricia Marinez del Hoy...

Ride along with us inside GM's EN-V (Electric Networked Vehicle), a tiny two-seater with a 40-mile range that whisked us around a hotel ballroom in smooth, quiet comfort. The little two-seater, employing the same balancing-act technology as the Segwa...

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Grab your popcorn and Twizzlers, because 2011 is already shaping up to be an exciting year to watch startups and giants do battle for market share and big ideas. If you're not sure which companies to look out for in the coming year, our writers and e...

Groupon has raised $475 million of its $950 million funding, according to a report in All Things Digital. The item, which cites "sources close to the situation," notes that the investors include Russia's DST Global, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Capital G...

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